The Inquisition

**miho** · 10-30-2005, 23:09

This thread is about the real inquisition and about the medieval one. So the inquisitions are the worst thing that Catholic Church has ever done. Why? Well they burned and in other ways killed surely about 1000000 people, mostly women. Once someone was accused they very rarely evaded death. When someone was accused there was no fair trial. The accused were tortured in many ways to admit that they were witches. They even had a test to prove if someone was a witch. They would put the victim (the accused) under water with a rock or something tied to them. If they would manage to somehow swim out they were later burned. And if they drowned it was a proof that they were "normal". The Inquisitors caused people to fear them. I'm not so sure they ever killed a king or someone of noble birth but they burned peasants for fun. So think of this next time you use inquisitors and enjoy burning other generals. I admit that it can be fun and easy to play with them but it sure wasn't fun in the Medieval times.

**lilljonas** · 10-31-2005, 03:24

Neither were the taxation systems fair, the legal systems just or the wars humanitarian. I have a hard time figuring out anything that were "fun" from all points of views when it comes to M:TW.

If you are interested in European religious atrocities, it stays nasty throughout the Renaissance, with the Huguenot wars as a sad example of the frequent battles between the Protestants and Catholics.

**sbroadbent** · 10-31-2005, 07:28

Originally Posted by miho

This thread is about the real inquisition and about the medieval one. So the inquisitions are the worst thing that Catholic Church has ever done. Why? Well they burned and in other ways killed surely about 1000000 people, mostly women. Once someone was accused they very rarely evaded death. When someone was accused there was no fair trial. The accused were tortured in many ways to admit that they were witches. They even had a test to prove if someone was a witch. They would put the victim (the accused) under water with a rock or something tied to them. If they would manage to somehow swim out they were later burned. And if they drowned it was a proof that they were "normal". The Inquisitors caused people to fear them. I'm not so sure they ever killed a king or someone of noble birth but they burned peasants for fun. So think of this next time you use inquisitors and enjoy burning other generals. I admit that it can be fun and easy to play with them but it sure wasn't fun in the Medieval times.

Not to mention that were supposedly tortured to reveal the names of other witches. One person might be named as a witch and under torture would implicate 20 other people, who would then subsequently be tortured and each might implicate another series of people. Keep repeating this over again, and it's quite easy to see how it went out of control.

**Weebeast** · 10-31-2005, 09:13

Sad thing is even after people found a new world of America for a purpose of being 'pure' there were still religious atrocities.

Not to mention that were supposedly tortured to reveal the names of other witches.

...which were pretty much random because they didn't know who were the witches lol.

**miho** · 10-31-2005, 09:43

Originally Posted by lilljonas

battles between the Protestants and Catholics.

There were also battles between the protestants and the Puritans.

The Catholic Church did much more monstosities but the inquisition is the worst. They also were the richest in the middle ages because many people would donate them land in order to save their souls and peasants had to give the chuch a percentage of their belongings. For example if they had 10 cows they would have to give one to the church. The priests were uneducated and they sold the forgiveness of sins. When you went to confess you had to pay for it depending of your sins.

Originally Posted by lilljonas

I have a hard time figuring out anything that were "fun" from all points of views when it comes to M:TW.

Those were pretty hard times to live in unless you were a noble.

**MuseRulez** · 10-31-2005, 10:11

Originally Posted by miho

The priests were uneducated and they sold the forgiveness of sins. When you went to confess you had to pay for it depending of your sins.

It gets even better, you could also pay ahead. An example: you have plans to murder someone. You go to church and confess you plans to the priest. Pay him a good amount of gold and you would get a note which said that you were forgiven. The Church made a fortune this way.

**miho** · 10-31-2005, 10:40

Well killing a man wasn't such a big crime unless he was someone influential. Stealing was considered to a be worse crime than killing. And poaching was strictly prohibited too. Can you imagine that if you get caught killing an animal you might be hanged, while if you get caught killing a man you only needed to pay a fine to the family of the deceased. And paying wasn't obligatory, but if you didn't pay you and your family would be excommunicated and would most likely be lynched.